by Jessica Federman | Aug 17, 2026 | NORTH CAROLINA History, Sea Stories, Uncategorized
In 1864, Captain Richard Worsam Meade II prepared to leave USS North Carolina for a new command. His departure was marked in an unusual way: with a piece of music. Composer Luigi de Perini wrote The Adieu March, a piano composition dedicated to Meade as he left North...
by Jessica Federman | May 4, 2026
The waters off Cape Fear hold the world’s largest concentration of American Civil War shipwrecks. Between 1861 & 1865, the Union Navy sought to blockade the Confederate port of Wilmington, North Carolina, resulting in the loss of nearly 33 vessels along the...
